Nigerian national involved in Kidney racket arrested from Bengaluru

KOLKATA: A Nigerian national was arrested by

Kolkata Police

for allegedly creating a fake look alike website of

Fortis Hospital and Kidney Institute

and floating an advertisement asking for

kidney donations

. He had claimed that the donors would be compensated by the hospital itself.

In another website mentioning the name of the hospital, another similar advertisement was floated with the name and mobile number of a doctor, claimed to have been associated with the hospital. Acting on a complaint of Mohit Arora, the facility director of the hospital at Rashbehari Avenue in Kolkata, police started an investigation and arrested

David Uzoma Ubah

, 37, a resident of Lagos in Nigeria from a rented accommodation in Bengaluru. He was brought to the city on transit remand on Friday and would be produced before a court on Saturday.